How to Avoid a Miscarriage With Fibroids
Fibroids are fleshy, benign growths that can appear in and around the uterus. Fibroids can lead to increased menstrual bleeding, pain in the abdomen and an increased chance of miscarriage. Many women live with their fibroid tumors and can carry a baby to full term while having fibroids in their uterus. More commonly, fibroids cause women to become unable to carry a baby to term unless they have the fibroid tumors surgically removed from their uterus. Here is a guide to help you avoid a miscarriage by surgically removing your fibroid tumors.
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Schedule your surgery after receiving the approval of your doctor to go through with the abdominal myomectomy, or removal of the fibroid tumors. Check in and register at the hospital, and try to relax.
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Receive anesthesia from the anesthesiologist. For an abdominal myomectomy, you should be receiving a general anesthesia, meaning you will be completely asleep for the surgery. Once you are asleep, the surgeon will make a 2-3 inch long incision right above the pubic bone. This incision is similar to the kind a woman will receive during a Cesarean section birth, and will heal with minimal scarring.
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The surgeon will remove the fibroids by feeling them with her hands and using small instruments to gently remove the fibroid tumors. This procedure is done carefully and will help your uterus to carry a baby to term. Once the surgeon has removed all of the fibroid tumors, she will close the incision using surgical stitches or sutures.
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Recover in the hospital for the required amount of time, usually three days. You will receive intravenous medications to help ease the pain during recovery and will be monitored by nurses and doctors to ensure that you are healing properly and do not have an infection. After the third day, you will be allowed to leave the hospital. Full at-home recover takes between four to six weeks.
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